* I'll occasionally put on an act when trying to get a point
across. One thing I might do a little differently is I
occasionally dip down and show, "Hey, look, I'm human here".
I've been told that I'm "emotionally expressive" online, or
at other times "refreshing". While I'm not entirely sure
what that means, I have _some_inkling. For me, the people
connection comes first and my convincing comes secondarily.
I don't need someone to agree with me, I need El Che to be a
friend, with whom it is nice to also have agreement. Since
you are my friend, there's already a host of agreements that
come with it for free, even if our reasoning processes,
hypothesis and conclusions may occasionally differ in their
expressions. For me, that's the stuff worth living for, for
I could easily be alone, given some unwanted set of
circumstances in life. But if I'm made some kind of
connection, then in some sense, I am still connected in some
way... if even a word or a sense has jiggled a piece of the
mental machinery within someone else within them to consider
me a friend. I've got a 'spot' and with that spot, comes
influence whether I am there or not. Weird perspective,
granted, but it's the best explanation I can do at present.
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[4]Kenneth Udut [5]El Ch* Yeah, I had to learn to decouple
my emotions starting when I was 11 years old, well, actually
by 8, but at 11 I could do no more on my own and my mother
sent me to biofeedback training for a few months once a
week. I learned to breath through my feet, be a warm bottle
in the sun, listen to these strange cassette tapes with new
age (early 80s style... and... new age style really hasn't
progressed) and breath.
It was called the "QR Method" which doesn't really exist
anymore, but the 'gist' of it is as old as the hills.
I'll be 43 in a couple of weeks, and while I've added
cigarettes to the breathing method sometimes, just the same,
I still do it to this day. It works.
I also have a mental slogan: "You will not emotionally
manipulate me."
I wanted to punch Sarah McLaughlin, the ASPCA (or whoever
did it) for their Arms of an Angel commercial, because I
know just how MUCH research and psychology goes behind
emotional manipulation for advertising. And when I felt a
slight "choking up" feeling in the first commercial, I
mentally stopped myself, and was simultaneouly impressed by
their success, (I was like, "You ALMOST got me, you ....")
and annoyed because of all the millions of dollars they were
going to rake in by emotional manipulation techniques.
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[10]Kenneth Udut [11]El Ch* But to be honest, I do not
support the use of anger, belittling, bullying and hyperbole
for the purposes of convincing another person about
something, whether or not one has internal equanimity.
To me, that is Dark Side. So if you occasionally see me
being argumentative in this regard, this is why. I don't
have any trouble with the game-playing, but I prefer when
the cat eventually lets the mouse go and not continue the
tease. Or, in some cases I've seen in internet debate, some
are not satisfied until they've devoured the mouse
partially, left it a bloody living mess and the mouse runs
off to painfully lick its torn skin, shattered bones and
eventually runs off to a corner to die.
I've never been a fan of excessive cat-and-mouse games among
humans, honestly. We're not cats. We're not mice. We're
humans.
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